“I AM GOING TO KILL ICE AGENTS”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AUTHORITIES SAY JUSTIN WARD POSTED THREATS ON FACEBOOK TO KILL IMMIGRATION AGENTS DURING A MINNEAPOLIS OPERATION… AND HE HAS NOW BEEN SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED AND THREE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.
Justin Ward is 32 years old.
He is a Michigan man from Ironwood.
Ward threatened to kill federal immigration agents.
The threats occurred during a high-profile enforcement operation.
That operation was taking place in Minneapolis.
At the time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was conducting a widely publicized operation in Minneapolis.
On Jan. 29, federal prosecutors said the case began.
On that date, the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office was investigating Ward.
Deputies were investigating him for allegedly threatening to kill a local law enforcement officer.
Deputies later learned Ward was traveling through northern Wisconsin.
He was traveling toward Duluth.
But while en route, authorities said he posted on Facebook.
Authorities said he posted that he was going to kill ICE agents.
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Ward was arrested.
And he remained in custody until sentencing.
In May, Ward pleaded guilty.
He pleaded guilty to making threats to injure law enforcement.
On Aug. 25, Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson sentenced him.
Judge Peterson sentenced him to time served.
The judge found that the amount of time already spent behind bars was consistent with the guideline range.
The judge also considered evidence that Ward had been experiencing a mental health crisis leading up to the threats.
Yet his release requires ongoing supervision.
Ward will now spend three years on supervised release.
He will serve that release under strict conditions.
Those conditions include a curfew.
Those conditions include GPS monitoring.
Threatening to kill federal agents brought a federal conviction.
It brought three years of court-supervised restrictions after his release.
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